re: #190 Obdicut

Religion isn’t a code to live by. Ethics are a code to live by. Religions often incorporated ethics, back in the days before the Enlightenment. We’re a post-Enlightenment society. We can just use ethics, we don’t need to shackle it to religion.

Ethics relies too much on reason, and thus on thought. Too many people don’t or won’t think, and instant gratification just pushes that even higher. Religion as a source of ethics addds an emotional basis behind the ethics, giving them greater strength and not needing as much though to adopt.

There’s more I want to say, but I’m starting to fade, so I’m going to sign off instead. Good Night, all.